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Civil War artillery live fire
Posted on 4/21/20 at 6:00 pm
Posted on 4/21/20 at 6:00 pm
In the Civil War, there were six artillery pieces to a battery and often times, especially in defending against grand assaults, you would see multiple batteries grouped together to lay waste to attacking formations.
Imagine 30 or so guns grouped together shooting at you from this perspective. It really makes you think about the Confederate assaults at Malvern Hill and Gettysburg, as well as the Union assault at Fredericksburg.
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Imagine 30 or so guns grouped together shooting at you from this perspective. It really makes you think about the Confederate assaults at Malvern Hill and Gettysburg, as well as the Union assault at Fredericksburg.
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Posted on 4/21/20 at 6:02 pm to RollTide1987
I’m fascinated with Civil War History
Posted on 4/21/20 at 6:02 pm to RollTide1987
Lee fricked up at Gettysburg, no two ways about it.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 6:07 pm to RollTide1987
That whistle when it barely ricochets and misses 
Posted on 4/21/20 at 6:09 pm to Vito Andolini
Lee should've moved on once Sam Elliot denied him the high ground.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 6:11 pm to RollTide1987
Gunner’s Quadrants today are nearly identical to their Napoleanic 12-lb’r counterpart. (Manually sets quadrant or the vertical measurement on the cannon tub). Did one of my college history papers on Artillery’s role in the fight at Malvern Hill and spent nearly 20 years in the artillery community.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 6:12 pm to Slinger16
Grape Shot was not fake news
Posted on 4/21/20 at 6:12 pm to RollTide1987
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This post was edited on 2/1/21 at 12:58 pm
Posted on 4/21/20 at 6:16 pm to Slinger16
quote:
Sam Elliott
Posted on 4/21/20 at 6:18 pm to RollTide1987
Very cool video.
By WWI they had advanced to using rolling artillery barrages where the artillery of the attacking side proceeded ahead of the infantry attack. Talk about putting your life in the hand of your comrades.
By WWI they had advanced to using rolling artillery barrages where the artillery of the attacking side proceeded ahead of the infantry attack. Talk about putting your life in the hand of your comrades.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 6:22 pm to saint tiger225
I went to a civil war battlefield and the guide said a civil war bullet would put a hole the size of a pool ball in a telephone pole.
Those men were incredibly brave on both sides.
Those men were incredibly brave on both sides.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 6:24 pm to RollTide1987
this is fricking legit badass
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